#what did i say this quote is hard

[letters-to-rosie]

dang why i gotta do everything around here

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

[moregraceful]

my hot take as a person with an english degree and a library degree is that some of the dorkiest fiction and poetry ever committed to paper in the english language came out of the iowa writer's workshop so it is at best goofy and at worst completely futile to argue that your average amazon unlimited writer is having a more deleterious effect on literacy and literature.

[crossbackpoke-check]

it’s all the rest of what i want with you

connor dewar/brandon duhaime :: 8k

Summary:

“Brandon,” Connor says with a sigh. “There’s no baby in there.”

“Not yet,” Brandon says. Connor feels his stomach twist, almost like what he would imagine a baby kicking to feel like.

in these trying times of dewvorce, may i offer you 8k of pwp inspired by @stillfertile’s wonderful art which i had. several breakdowns about 🫶 anyway please enjoy!!!

[clotpolesonly]

Adam's got a type

Blue Lily, Lily Blue ch 9 // The Raven King ch 31 // The Raven King ch 28 // Dream Thieves prologue // Dream Thieves ch 2 // Dream Thieves ch 2

[skylie-spiderlillis]

Just ignore my silly batfam texting headcanon(s).

Damian Jason the literature nerd and Barbara all have perfect grammar and a high vocabulary in texting and the rest of the batkids is like wtf. Weirdos. In group chats.

Though Damian probably uses emojis a lot. Probably a lot of angry emojis.

And also Jason is very brief and stiff in his messages.

[incorrectquotesideas-deactivated]

Person A: Do you want a beer? I’m paying.

Person B, going through the restaurant’s menu: No. Ugh, where’s the good stuff?

Person A, half jokingly: I thought you were an alcoholic.

Person B: Exactly. I’d need at least, like, four beers — without food — to get slightly buzzed, and my stomach can’t fit over 2 beers in it. I’m small. I’ll have a rum, neat.

[yeonban]

Send ✵ and my muse will answer the following.

@achroanimus asked: ✵ for Kagari :3

Their first impression of your muse:

❛ What impression did you think I'd have when Gino-sensei told me my spot as an enforcer was decided after Sasayama-san was brutally murdered and Ko-chan nearly lost his mind about it, all thanks to this guy? Dunno about you, but I can't stand people who make my friends suffer, even if it's by targeting someone else instead of them. I don't think you could've made me think any worse of Makishima back then if you'd tried. ❜

Current impression:   

❛ I still dislike the guy, but I s'pose that one saying about growing used to anyone you're forced to spend time with is pretty much on the nose. I'd rather not see him every day and I definitely don't want to hear him talk in his nerdy quotes again, but I can't lie and say he hasn't been helpful over the years. Especially against that Togane, way back when. I hate to admit it, but Makishima's also the reason I became an enforcer in the first place and managed to leave that godforsaken facility behind. Feels real' off when I say it, though, so forget it. ❜

Are they attracted to your muse?:  

❛ Hell no. Hell will freeze over and I'll become a proper citizen before anything other than my fist is attracted to that scheming bastard. ❜

Something they find frightening about your muse:

❛ The ease he committed all of his crimes with. Nothing more terrible than a twisted criminal who thinks he's in the right and doing something good while being the reason for so many people's deaths. ❜

Something they find adorable about your muse:  

❛ Adorable? About Makishima? Don't make me laugh. He's only ever close to being "adorable" when I'm forced to compare him with someone even worse than him. Meh, I guess that unnerving smiling face of his is cuter than say, Togane's, so there's that. ❜

Would my muse sacrifice themselves for yours?:  

❛ Not if I can help it. That smart brain of his is a good addition to the team, but I'm not gonna sacrifice myself for someone I don't fully trust. Not unless the circumstances are bad enough for him to somehow become our last hope, in which case I'd rather die than have to live in a scenario as grim as that. ❜

Would my muse go on a date with yours?  platonic/romantic:  

❛ No. I don't think I can bear a full day with mr. Shakespeare over there. He's pissing me off every time he quotes an author, so you can imagine how that hypothetical date would go when he can barely breathe without doing that. ❜

One word my muse would use to describe yours:  

❛ Headache. You can eventually grow used to it after a while, but it'll always be there to remind you of its presence. Makishima is the same. I don't hate the bastard anymore, but he's still as irritating as ever, even if we're on the same side now. ❜

Would my muse slap yours if they could?: 

❛ Oh, for sure. I suppress that urge until I can ask him to spar with me, though. I can't believe I used to spar with Ko-chan all the time, and now I'm doing it with this guy instead. Funny how life works. ❜

Would my muse hug/kiss yours?:

❛ No. And I would hope that goes both ways. Makishima doing either one of these things would be the stuff of my nightmares, man. ❜

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[oh-gh0st]

ok i actually need ot ramble ab that wip

[link-lonk]

I think Taylor Swift should come out as straight actually

[scattered-winter]

ok maybe this is controversial but it's always rubbed me the wrong way whenever an actor/celebrity dies and everyone is mourning them but only in relation to the character they played??? like idk if my mom died tomorrow and everyone was mourning her because she couldn't do her job anymore I would probably commit a hatecrime

[born-to-lose]

Missing people and regretting shit o'clock

[autisticseaserpent]

Do any queer people who had parents who were like in their 20s in the 80s feel kind of envious that you’ve never been able to be in a time where being androgynous was like close to mainstream fashionable.

[crossbackpoke-check]

"This extra space next to me belongs to you. I know where I end now. I won't get lost." -- shoot me (metaphorically) and leave me for dead (metaphorically) why won't you. To make this about Dylan and maybe it's about Connor, maybe it's about Brinksy, maybe it's about any journeyman in the NHL. My brain screamed Chris Driedger and his memorable (to me) Players' Tribune article:

And how can you mention Dylan and Zach (Za-ach, the way Dylan says it) without me having a breakdown about them? You simply can't. And for the younger dudes, maybe it's a little Bords/Briss, not yet steady in The Show, a little bit of distance, a summer that tries to erase and make up all the memories they've made separately... and then a blurry insta story in Vegas. Just like old times but somewhere else. Maybe it's not the same bed, maybe it's not the same set of forks, but maybe it's the principle of the thing.

Anyway, goodbye. Sorry for this, your tag walls make me break out in imagined scenarios.

Much love. xxx

please never be sorry for sending me messages <3 i love reading them i love getting them i think they’re beautiful and i love them i’m!!!!! [🥹💕🦋🫧✨💘😭 <- the best approximation of what my heart is doing]

ok NOW i am taking this step by step because every narrative here kicked me straight in the knees (metaphorically) i am w e e p i n g (literally): i knew tangentially about chris driedger going to seattle but i had never read his players’ tribune love letter to seattle & all i can say is oh. oh. and with the part about trains delayed but still being right on time—

sometimes a dream is a truth your heart knows long before you do. the space that the city and the team made for him (“you’d be the only guy on the team”)🗣️🗣️🗣️ !!! but the way that chris talks about needing to put in the work & leo not letting him quit,,, that’s chris filling up the teakettle with twice as much water, crowding one side of the bed (falling asleep against a bus window dreaming), becoming unburdened by the idea of not being their guy, not having the fallback being their draft pick to content and settle himself with. that’s chris betting on a future. that’s the train coming down the tracks, right on time.

(i am feeling unhinged about it)

SECOND. i know i was the one that said zach and dylan to start so technically i brought this on myself but also i have been ktfo by the mere mention of the way that dylan says zach’s name different from everyone else, stealing an extra breath, stealing as much time as he can get with him, which reminded me of a poem i just read:

The Need Is So Great, Jim Moore

^^^dylan still in love with zach even as he’s leaving, can feel himself losing him, and taking every sliver of the love in his smile that he can get. even if he knows zach doesn’t still feel the same way he’s drawing out the long goodbye & saying i love you in a thousand ways without ever saying it out loud (“i have been asking for a time but in ways that have no words” because he doesn’t want to ask too much, to ask for love) in the hope that zach will say it back OKAY I’M LEAVING i can’t do this

that was a lie because THREE. “maybe it’s the principle of the thing” please insert the most ungodly screech how could you just (lovingly) come in straight with the steel chair and bean me upside the head with that l i n e i think this story has the potential for such tragedy in it but also the most tender domestic longing because bords & briss have known each other for a long time (i think) and guys do sometimes lose themselves when they first get to the nhl.

it’s a big scene, you’re with big name guys, you’re finally doing the thing you always dreamed about, you’re no longer necessarily the best because everyone’s the best, you’re not sure how you fit in, you can get lost in the glitz and the glamor of it but you can also literally get lost in it, the slog of the season and getting caught up and down between teams and leagues and endless airports and buses and travel and ice rinks, losing your phone (accidental) and having new people hound you for quotes and fame and connection so you lose your phone (on purpose) and i think where i’m trying to go is: this could play out as the tragedy of borde going to the california coastline and briss shipping off to the vegas strip and both of them getting a little lost.

maybe there’s someone else, maybe i am steadfastly not thinking about “a summer that tries to erase and make up all the memories they've made separately” as either a summer of them pretending things are ok after a year of barely speaking and now being completely different people they never were before OR a summer of them trying to pretend like they can forget about each other because maybe they didn’t think their relationship was the same thing, is all, when they were or weren’t together. maybe it’s nobody’s fault but for the fact that they were scared and tired and lonely trying to make it in the big times and didn’t know how to show it. and then borde shows up with takeout and plastic forks in vegas and it’s december and nothing like winter in ann arbor and still they fill up all the empty spaces in each other with the things they didn’t know they’d miss until they were gone and this is the real thing, not whatever they were trying too hard to be, to recreate their own nostalgia for the love in their memories. it’s the principle of the thing, is all, to always be true to the love they have right now & not what they think it should be.

sorry that i wrote you kind of an essay of an answer but i had so so so many thoughts because your ask was so lovely so thank you for sending it to me (you are always welcome to!! i love your imagined scenarios!!! cannot even explain how much!!!) & thank you for taking the time to read my walls of tags :))) <3

[shewhoeatssand]

always remember, what truly matters isn’t the Kaneki on the outside, but your Kaneki on the inside.

[icantalk710]

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